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Alexis Wolf
@dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Reading, writing, researching, editing.

She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
www.alexiswolf.co.uk
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Today is publication day!

Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie 1798-1840.

Please request it for your library to read about manuscript circulation, 18c & 19c knowledge exchange, & networks of amazing Irish & Russian women writers

boydellandbrewer.com/978178327788...
I never see my family at the actual holidays but this year they came early for a week. We did Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas in one weekend. Now I think I'm going to just sleep til spring.
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Explaining the Regency and Romantic period to my little guy @ the National Portrait Gallery
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Lovely display of women travel writers at the National Portrait Gallery
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Readers, it was delightful. Wonderful to hear BL manuscript curator Catherine Angerson introducing the talks as well.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Alexis Wolf
Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle

Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…
Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle
Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that marriage is a form of slavery (for women), and what that could possibly mean in the context of transatlantic slavery.
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Very excited to hear @devoney.bsky.social speak at the BL tonight, with a bit of fan girl excitement also reserved for Susannah Harker (Jane Bennett in the '95 P&P) ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ok. As a Romantic scholar, should I watch the new Frankenstein, or will it just make me mad?
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Since becoming a parent of a school-aged child, this definitely feels more and more like the bad place. How will this help anyone?
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Henry Tilney read the entirety of The Mysteries of Udolpho in only TWO DAYS! This is what phones have taken from us.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I love living in Sussex, but I do feel homesick for America, even with all of its (enormous/scary) problems. Spent morning listening to NPR between writing feedback for workshop tomorrow, & making minestrone. Love hearing the weather report from my hometown, thinking about everyone still sleeping.
November 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What?!? Filmmaker Mira Nair is the new NYC mayor's mom? Like Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala Mira Nair?? I already liked this situation but... wow. She is the ultimate babe. It all makes sense.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I love that the Bluesky community exists and can help with things like this in the absence of the little blue bird site, which I sometimes miss.

(taken care of now, thank you!)
Can anyone access either of these sources for me? Looking to get the Intros as PDFs.

muse.jhu.edu/book/128860/

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can anyone access either of these sources for me? Looking to get the Intros as PDFs.

muse.jhu.edu/book/128860/

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Alexis Wolf
Podcast — The Race & Regency Lab
www.raceandregency.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It was such an EXCELLENT day. Trains, coffees, manuscripts reading room, snake weights. FIVE STARS.
I am visiting the BL tomorrow for RESEARCH & to look at a MANUSCRIPT. After a year of maternity leave, then taking time to start a new business, this feels EXCITING (& worthy of caps).

Can anyone advise on the situation for ordering books/MS in reading rooms? Last visit, it was still paper slips.
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am visiting the BL tomorrow for RESEARCH & to look at a MANUSCRIPT. After a year of maternity leave, then taking time to start a new business, this feels EXCITING (& worthy of caps).

Can anyone advise on the situation for ordering books/MS in reading rooms? Last visit, it was still paper slips.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Alexis Wolf
Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread
Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Alexis Wolf
Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to.

Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to.

Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Shocked that I received a (small) royalty payment for my monograph today. I thought they were a bit like unicorns 🦄 📖

I'm happy that people are out there reading this lovely thing

boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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As the new academic year starts here in Cambridge, my thoughts turn towards libraries... I wrote about the extraordinary Mary Paley Marshall, who co-founded the Marshall Library of Economics in 1925, and worked there until her 90s.
How to use a library
Mary Paley Marshall, political economist, author and librarian
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Writing Historical Non-Fiction Weekend

7-9 November

One space has become available on this sold-out workshop. Join us for an inspiring bonfire weekend in autumnal East Sussex and develop (or start) your project.

www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/weekendretre...
September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please send your writer friends, former students and lovers my way!
📖 Wolf Author Services 📖

I'm now offering support to writers & scholars.

Feeling stuck with a non-fiction project? Need a trusted reader, or someone to discuss your research with? Have a look at what I offer.

Please share with your networks. Reskeets welcome 🧡

www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices
September 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📖 Wolf Author Services 📖

I'm now offering support to writers & scholars.

Feeling stuck with a non-fiction project? Need a trusted reader, or someone to discuss your research with? Have a look at what I offer.

Please share with your networks. Reskeets welcome 🧡

www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Reposted by Alexis Wolf
'Ilaheva Tuaone and I are still seeking panelists for our ASECS roundtable, "The Unwritten Word: Alternative Texts, Epistemologies, and Ontologies." Full description here: asecs.org/sessions2026/

Please get in touch with any questions!
List of Sessions 2026 – ASECS
asecs.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM